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Bill Gurley

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first: 2025-12-17
most recent: 2025-12-17
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“Was very disinhibiting to him. It gave him permission to go do this career that's not a typical career, right? When you go to college, they don't list stand-up comedian as something that you can go do.”
2025-12-17 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #840: Bill Gurley — Investing in The AI Era, 10 Days in China, and Important Life Lessons from Bob Dylan, Jerry Seinfeld, MrBeast, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So as part of researching my new book Running Down a Dream, my co-writer and I were we spent six years like just diving through stories because I had done this speech at the University of Texas and we wanted to enhance it when we went to the printed form. And one of the stories we came across was Jerry Seinfeld and his decision to pursue a career as a comedian. And he was in New York. He wasn't sure what he wanted to do with his life. He had an inkling, an inkling that he might want to be a stand-up comic, but he didn't know what that meant. He didn't know if it was a real career. He didn't know that you could make money. And he read this book and it profiles looks like 15 different. It's got Woody Allen, Bill Cosby, George Carlin, Lily Townlin, Robert Klein. It profiled them in a way that”
2025-12-17 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #840: Bill Gurley — Investing in The AI Era, 10 Days in China, and Important Life Lessons from Bob Dylan, Jerry Seinfeld, MrBeast, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'm holding a book called The Last Laugh by Phil Berger. The reason it's tattered is I think it may be out of print. Like I bought it used, you know, because I wanted to see it and have it.”
2025-12-17 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #840: Bill Gurley — Investing in The AI Era, 10 Days in China, and Important Life Lessons from Bob Dylan, Jerry Seinfeld, MrBeast, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT